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Title: The Cyr Readers: arranged by grades
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Cyr, Eleen M.
Subjects: reading
Publisher: New York: Ginn and Company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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im for the merry strains which set them to dancing. The wanderer landed at Dover, friendless and pen-niless. He turned strolling player, but his face andfigure were not received with favor. He reached Lon- 20 don, but led a hard life there. Unable to find suitableemployment, he pounded drugs and ran errands for achemist, served as usher in a school, and was evenreduced to a life among the beggars. His medical education was of little use to him. He 25 tried to open a practice in London, but had few patients,and while at their bedsides was obliged to hold his hatover his coat to hide the worn places. Goldsmith now began to toil with his pen, lodgingin a garret at the top of a flight of stairs called Break- -- neck Steps. In this wretched abode, he wrote manyarticles for magazines and newspapers, essays, and poems,as were called for by the bookseller who employed him.His style was pure and graceful, and his humor happy.There was beauty in all that he wrote, and he gradually 5
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DR. JOHNSON READING THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. grew in favor. He made the acquaintance of Dr. John-son, one of the greatest English writers; Reynolds, afamous English painter; and Edmund Burke, a dis-tinguished orator. Goldsmith left the garret at the top of Breakneck 10Steps and took rooms in a better locality; but hewas constantly in debt. At one time he was arrestedfor not paying his rent, and he appealed to Johnson -£376E3- for help. The good doctor sent him a guinea and soonfollowed the messenger. He found that Goldsmithhad changed the guinea, bought a bottle of wine, andwas upbraiding the landlady. Dr. Johnson put the cork 5 into the bottle, and told Goldsmith to think of someway out of his difficulty. Goldsmith told him that he had a novel all ready forthe press. Johnson read it, saw that it was good, andcarrying it to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. 10 The debt was paid and the sheriffs officer withdrew.The novel that acted as rescuer was The Vicar ofWakefield. Before it

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